Oparil, Suzanne

Principals investigator of Mechanisms of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases since 1985 in response to the increasing emphasis of contemporary biomedical research on cellular and molecular approaches

Past president of the American Heart Association and first woman president of the American Federation of Medical Research

Member of the Council on High Blood Pressure Research, American Society of Hypertension, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Heart Association